You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.